Exhibitors reported enthusiastic buying as collectors embraced new areas of the market

Barges on the Seine, a Liao gold mask and spooky pre-Colombian tomb figures at the smartest decorative arts fair in the world

Art Basle, High Society meets High Art at the Grosvenor Antiques show, 20th-century decorative arts star in New York and Paris, a new ceramics show in London

The event has become the main venue for collectors in this field

Highest ever turnover for members

Paintings and decorative arts prove harder to sell

Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British

Affordable, good quality and diverse, it brings in all sorts

The 1992 Grosvenor House Antiques Fair had declared the jewel a made-up piece